The bell of danger hit Easter Sunday (20.04.2025) WHERE about the devastating consequences of cutting part of the international aid of USA in war zones.
As explains, the freeze of US humanitarian aid raises the risk of getting worse the humanitarian situation in war zones, where health systems were already confronted with major trials, such as in particular in the Gaza Strip or Sudan.
After taking power on January 20, President Donald Trump frozen American aid abroad, including important programs aimed at improving healthy health.
Minutes broke up USAIDthe US International Development Aid Office, which had an annual budget of $ 42.8 billion, which represented 42% of humanitarian aid on its own.
Washington also announced its forthcoming retirement from WHO, which would reduce its budget by one fifth, shrinking its missions and staff.
The US, for a long time, the country that contributed most of the UN Health Funding, They did not pay the amounts committed in 2024 and may not even do so in 2025.
“The one who plays an important role in preserving health systems, their restoration, training and development of medical groups to deal with emergencies,” said Hanan Balchi, his regional director responsible for the Eastern Mediterranean during the Eastern Mediterranean.
“Many of these programs have stopped today or cannot continue,” Ms. Balchi warned.
To Gauze strip under siege, where Health status is catastrophic And huge damage, after one and a half years of war between Hamas and the Israeli army, most hospitals have ceased to operate.
“The support of the medical emergency groups, the supply of medicines, the rehabilitation of health infrastructure is directly affected by the freezing of American aid,” Ms Balchi explained.
To Sudanthe organization is facing increasing difficulties as the war raging for over two years now between the regular army and the paramilitaries uprooted millions of people.
Country areas are affected simultaneously by at least three epidemics —Itoneum, dengue fever, cholera – said Mrs Balchi.
“We are working intensively to recognize recovered and reappearing pathogens, to protect the Sudanese and the rest of the world,” he said.
The departure of the US from also undermine communication channels that have been around for decades with the best universities, research centers and public health institutions in the country.
This would risk preventing the exchange of information, critical to prevent health crises such as a future pandemic, thus affecting “our ability to guarantee surveillance and detection of diseases” on a global scale, his official added.
As he reminded him, “these bacteria and viruses do not know borders and are indifferent to the human political context.”